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vehicle or animal, not keeping on the left or near side of the road or street, or when passing any other vehicle or animal going in the same direction; not going or passing, or not allowing any person desirous so to do to pass, when practicable, on the right or off side of such other vehicle or animal.
29th.—Driver of any horse or vehicle being away from his horse or cattle, so as not to have the full control of them, or injuring any person or property whatsoever, by driving on the wrong side of the road, or neglect and carelessness in driving
30th.—Any person driving any cart, waggon or dray without the name and residence of the owner thereof being painted in a legible and permanent manner on the right or off side, in letters of at least one inch in length.
31st.—Any person driving any dog or goat harnessed or attached to any vehicle through any public place.
32nd.—Any person who shall act as driver, or have the sole charge of more than one vehicle, on any public road or street, unless in cases where two of such carriages and no more shall be drawn each by one horse only, and the horse of the hinder of such carriages shall be attached by a sufficient rein to the back of the foremost of such vehicles.
33rd.—Driver or guard of public vehicle for conveyance of passengers wilfully delaying on the road, using any abusive or insulting language to any passenger, or by reason of any intoxication, negligence, or other misconduct, causing injury to or endangering the safety of the person or property of any passenger or person.
34th.—Any person turning loose any horses or cattle upon any public street, or allowing any animal or animals to wander on any public street or thoroughfare within the Town of Oamaru.
35th.—Any person leaving upon any public street or thoroughfare any plough, harrow, cart, or other vehicle without any horse or animal harnessed thereto, unless in consequence of some accident having occurred.
36th.—Any person slaughtering or skinning any beast, upon any public street or thoroughfare, or permitting any slaughtered beast or any skin to remain there, or leaving any dead beast on such street or thoroughfare.
37th.—Any person having any iron, timber, or boards laid upon any vehicle going along any street or thoroughfare so that either end shall project more than two feet beyond the wheels or sides of such vehicle.
38th.—Any person destroying, damaging, polluting or obstructing any aqueduct, dam, sluicepipe, pump, watercourse, or fountain.
39th.—Any person suffering or allowing any waste or impure water or fluid matter to remain in or on any building or premises in the town; or allowing any waste or impure water, or other matter, to run or flow from any such building or premises upon or over; or be on any carriage or footway, or place, whether public or private, within the town; or shall allow the contents of any watercloset, privy, or cesspool to flow over; or to soak therefrom, so as to be offensive.
40th.—Any person selling, exposing, delivering, or offering for sale any hay, straw, or coals, from one half-ton upwards, within the Town of Oamaru, without having weighed or caused the same to be weighed at some weighbridge within the said town, licensed or provided or sanctioned for that purpose by the Town Council of Oamaru; or any such person refusing or omitting to produce the weight note of the load, or part of a load of any such hay, straw, or coals, sold, exposed, or offered for sale, for the satisfaction of any inspector appointed by the Town Council of Oamaru in that behalf.
41st.—Any carter or other person selling, exposing, delivering, or offering for sale on any cart or waggon, any hay, straw, or coals, without having the correct tare weight of such waggon or cart painted and affixed thereto in some conspicuous place in letters of not less than one inch.
42nd.—Any carter or other person who shall refuse or omit, on being requested by the purchaser, to take to any weighbridge within the town, appointed or licensed for the purpose of this Bye-law by the Town Council, the waggon, dray, cart, or other vehicle after the delivery of the load, for the purpose of such dray, cart, or other vehicle being re-weighed, and the correct tare weight thereof when empty ascertained.
43rd.—Any owner or person in charge of any weighbridge within the Town of Oamaru who shall give a false or incorrect weight of any dray, cart, or other vehicle, or of any load or part of a load of goods thereon.
44th.—Any owner or person in charge of any weighbridge within the Town of Oamaru who shall demand or exact any greater rates than those in this section authorised to be charged from any person using or desiring to use any weighbridge: Rates chargeable for each vehicle having two wheels only, ; do. do. for four wheels, . . Provided nevertheless that the Town Council may at any time by resolution vary the rates herein authorised to be charged; and after publication in the "Provincial Government Gazette;" of any such alteration, the rates so altered shall be deemed to be the rates authorised under this Bye Law.
45th.—Any person ringing a bell or bells in any street or public place within the Town of Oamaru for the purpose of crying or calling any matter or thing whatever without permission of the Town Council.
46th.—Any person being the owner or tenant of any building abutting any street where the footpath has been formed, who by omitting or neglecting to secure and maintain the foundation of such building, causes or allows the formed footpath to fall in or be otherwise damaged.
47th.—Any owner or tenant of any land or premises in front of which the footpath has been asphalted, or otherwise paved, who omits daily to clear before eight (8) o'clock a.m., and to keep clean so much of the footpath as is opposite to or in front of any such premises.
48th.—Any person who shall sweep or put any sweepings, dirt, rubbish, or thing into the channel in any street.
49th.—Any owner or driver of any hay cart or other vehicle who, whilst such hay cart or other vehicle is passing through or along any street in the town unloaded, neglects to have the projecting frame detached from the body of the cart in such a manner as not to be an obstruction to the public, nor dangerous to limb or life.
50th.—Any person carrying upon any footpath or street-line any implements, tools, or materials, projecting in such manner as to be a public obstruction, or dangerous or annoying to passengers.
51st.—Any person riding or driving any horse or other animal, either with or without a vehicle, at other than a walking pace over any bridge or round an angle or corner of any street or public thoroughfare within the Town, or within three (3) feet of any corner of any footpath.
52nd.—Any person carting any carcasses or butcher's meat through the Town without the same being covered.
53rd.—Any person obstructing the Inspector of Nuisances in the execution of any of his duties.
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